Ex-Longhorn Johnson lends helping hand

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Brain Scans Reveal Why Meditation Works

Brain scans show that putting negative emotions into words calms the brain's emotion center. That could explain meditation

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Liberals Need Not Fear the Right to Bear Arms

People have been misled to think that guns are a Republican thing. That's unfortunate. Gun ownership is the most liberal thing I can imagine. It's about keeping power in the hands of the people instead of being exclusively the tools of government and the rich.

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Fossil of ferocious, human-sized tropical penguin found

The fossil, which was discovered in Peru and is described today in detail by scientists reveals a creature that was over 1.5 metres tall and weighed as much as a person.

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Large Hadron Collider will switch on in May 2008

The €6.3bn Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be the world's largest particle accelerator, colliding protons at energies of 14 TeV to generate what physicists hope will be a slew of new particles, such as the Higgs boson and so-called supersymmetric particles.

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The Alternative-Science Respectability Checklist

Believe me, I sympathize. You are in possession of a truly incredible breakthrough that offers the prospect of changing the very face of science as we know it, if not more. The only problem is, you're coming at things from an unorthodox perspective.

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What's Wrong with American Liberalism

Here's the real problem with American liberalism: there is no such thing, not really.

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Well Suited: -- Spoon's scrupulous new album

The Texas singer-songwriter Britt Daniel has recorded only two songs that are more than five minutes long. He hardly ever plays guitar solos, is a terse interview subject, and would never be photographed wearing an untucked T-shirt.

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English fans pool cash to buy their own soccer team

Given their potential purse, Brooks and his 50,000 partners are likely to get a smaller club, a third- or fourth-tier organization. But they would run it. They'll vote online on the purchase, help pick the manager, and vote on which players to buy or sell.

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Air Force Considered Gay 'Love Bomb'

The Air Force on Tuesday confirmed a report that in 1994 a military researcher requested $7.5 million to develop a non-lethal "love bomb" that would chemically alter the state of mind of enemy troops and make them want to have sex with each other rather than fight.

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Don't know much biology

According to Brownback, we should reject scientific findings if they conflict with our faith, but accept them if they're compatible.

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15 Things Kurt Vonnegut Said Better Than Anyone Else Ever Has Or Will

A nice look at some of Vonnegut's best lines.

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Quantum physics says goodbye to reality

Some physicists are uncomfortable with the idea that all individual quantum events are innately random. This is why many have proposed more complete theories, which suggest that events are at least partially governed by extra "hidden variables".

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Survey Reveals Most Satisfying Jobs

Firefighters, the clergy and others with professional jobs that involve helping or serving people are more satisfied with their work and overall are happier than those in other professions, according to results from a national survey.

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If T. rex fell, how did it get up, with those tiny arms ?

American paleontologist Henry Fairfield Osborn, the first one to describe T. rex, initially expressed doubts that the relatively small humerus, or upper arm bone, associated with this enormous animal really belonged to it.

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The Jock Exchange - Wall Street ready to launch a way to trade professional athletes the way you trade stocks.

As a number of smart people seem to have noticed at once, professional athletes have all the traits of successful publicly traded stocks, beginning with enormous speculative interest in them.

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Austin ponders plastic bag ban

The Austin City Council will consider a resolution on Thursday to limit or ban the use of plastic bags made from petroleum products in Austin stores.

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Welcome to the You Decade. - By Christopher Hitchens

So, whatever happened to the Me Decade? The answer is that nothing happened to it. It mutated quite easily and smoothly into a decade centered on another narcissistic pronoun. Which pronoun is that? You be the judge.

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I knew where I stood on abortion. But I had to rethink

But I couldn't be an anti-abortionist! I'm not religious. I have ethics, but they're nice squishy ones: I'm humanist, liberal, anti-establishment. And I'm a feminist. I have more than one Andrea Dworkin book and I'm not ashamed of that.

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The Coulter Hoax: How Ann Coulter Exposed the Intelligent Design Movement

It is unfortunate that some people are so insecure in their faith that they fear their own intellects, especially as the concept of man's free choice is central in Christian theology, making it perfectly logical that God has created the world so that we can explain it without a …

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Climate change already under way in Texas

The drought conditions that have dogged Central Texas in the past couple of years will become closer to the norm, Columbia University scientists concluded in a report published this week in the journal Science.

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Physicist Unlocks Secrets of Texas Hold 'Em

Clément Sire isn't just a statistical physicist—he's also a champion bridge player.

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Mathematician: Yankees Will Dominate Baseball This Year

The New York Yankees will win a whopping 110 games this season, more than any other major league team, according to a mathematician who applies math to real-life situations.

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Angling for the best knot

As any experienced angler will know, some knots are better than others -- but exactly why a "blood knot" should be stronger than, say, a "reef knot" is far from clear.

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Peer review for blogs?

He envisions this site as sort of an upscale Digg, where substantive criticism is preferred to "cool" or "not cool" rankings. I can imagine something like this working, but still I wonder if it might feel a bit too much like open peer review: unglamorous, and unrewarded.

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